π’₯𝒾𝓃𝒻𝒢 β„‹π“Šπ’Άπ“ƒβ„Š      

✨Bonjour, I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester (UR), advised by Prof. Jiebo Luo.

I aim at building multimodal interactive AI systems that can not only ground, reason and generate over the external world signals, to understand human language, but also assist humans in decision-making and efficiently solving social concerns, e.g., robot, medical. As steps towards this goal, my research interests include but are not limited to multimodal understanding, multimodal generation and multimodal foundation model post-training.

Prior to that, I got my master's degree from Peking University (PKU) in 2023, advised by Prof. Li Yuan and Prof. Jie Chen. And I obtained the honored bachelor's degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2020.

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News

  • [2024/11]    Winter is coming❄️! 1 paper is accepted by npj Digital Medicine (Impact Factor: 15.357).
  • [2024/11]    1 survey is accepted by CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology (Impact Factor: 8.4), which aims at promoting comouflaged object detection and beyond tasks: GitHub Repo stars Awesome Concealed Object Segmentation.
  • [2024/10]    πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯ We release a GitHub repository and survey aim at promoting the application of autoregressive models in vision domain: GitHub Repo stars Awesome Autoregressive Models in Vision .
  • [2024/09]    1 paper (Spotlight) is accepted by NeurIPS 2024 Datasets & Benchmarks Track.
  • [2024/09]    1 paper is accepted by EMNLP 2024 Findings.
  • [2024/06]   πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯ We are excited to present π‚π‘π«π¨π§π¨πŒπšπ π’πœ-𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐑, a benchmark for metamorphic evaluation of text-to-video generation, which provides valuable insights for T2V models selection. GitHub Repo stars
  • [2024/05]    Started the research internship at ByteDance Seed, Bellevue, USA, supervised by Quanzeng You & Yongfei Liu & Jianbo Yuan.
  • [2024/05]    1 paper is accepted by ACL 2024 Findings.
  • [2024/04]   πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯ We are thrilled to present πŒπšπ π’πœπ“π’π¦πž, a metamorphic time-lapse video generation model and a new dataset ChronoMagic, support U-Net or DiT-based T2V frameworks. GitHub Repo stars
  • [2024/01]    1 paper is accepted by ICLR 2024.
  • [2023/11]   πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯ We release a GitHub repository to promote medical Large Language Models research with the vision of applying LLM to real-life medical scenarios: GitHub Repo stars A Practical Guide for Medical Large Language Models.
  • [2023/11]   πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯ How could LMMs contribute to social good? We are excited to release a new preliminary explorations of GPT-4V(ison) for social multimedia: GPT-4V(ision) as A Social Media Analysis Engine.
  • [2023/09]   Join the VIStA Lab as a Ph.D. student working on vision and language.
  • [2023/07]   1 paper is accepted by ACMMM 2023.
  • [2023/05]   I was awarded the 2023 Peking University Excellent Graduation Thesis.
  • [2023/04]   1 paper is accepted by TIP 2023.
  • [2023/04]   1 paper is accepted by IJCAI 2023.
  • [2023/02]   1 paper (Top 10% Highlight) is accepted by CVPR 2023.
  • [2022/09]   1 paper is accepted by ICRA 2023.
  • [2022/09]   1 paper (Spotlight) is accepted by NeurIPS 2022.

  • Education

    University of Rochester (UR), USA
    PH.D. Student in Computer Science      • Sep. 2023 - Present
    Advisor: Prof. Jiebo Luo

    Peking University (PKU), China
    Master Degree in Computer Science      • Sep. 2020 - Jun. 2023
    Advisors: Prof. Li Yuan and Prof. Jie Chen

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China
    Bachelor Degree in Software Engineering      • Sep. 2016 - Jun. 2020
    Advisors: Prof. Xucheng Luo

    Research Experience

    Seed-Foundation/Data-AML, ByteDance
    Research Intern       • May. 2024 - Aug. 2024
    Advisors:   Dr. Quanzeng You & Dr. Yongfei Liu & Dr. Jianbo Yuan

    Artificial Intelligence Center, Pengcheng Lab
    Research Intern       • Sep. 2020 - Jun. 2022
    Advisors:   Dr. Guoli Song & Prof. Jie Chen

    Multimedia Computing Team, KDDI Research
    Research Intern       • Nov. 2019 - Feb. 2020
    Advisors:   Dr. Yanan Wang & Dr. Jianming Wu

    X-Data Research Group, Tencent IEG
    Engineering Intern       • Nov. 2019 - Jul. 2019
    Advisors:   Boya Yin & Dr. Yang Chao

    Selected Publication
    MagicTime: Time-lapse Video Generation Models as Metamorphic Simulators
    Shenghai Yuan*, Jinfa Huang*, Yujun Shi, Yongqi Xu, Ruijie Zhu, Bin Lin, Xinhua Cheng, Li Yuan, Jiebo Luo
    arXiv preprints
    (Github Repo 1300+ Stars🌟)
    [Paperlink], [Code], [Page]
    Area: Text-to-Video Generation, Diffusion Model, Time-lapse Videos

    Existing text-to-video generation models have not adequately encoded physical knowledge of the real world, thus generated videos tend to have limited motion and poor variations. In this paper, we propose MagicTime, a metamorphic time-lapse video generation model, which learns real-world physics knowledge from time-lapse videos and implements metamorphic video generation.

    Video-Text as Game Players: Hierarchical Banzhaf Interaction for Cross-Modal Representation Learning
    Peng Jin, Jinfa Huang, Pengfei Xiong, Shangxuan Tian, Chang Liu, Xiangyang Ji, Li Yuan, Jie Chen
    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2023
    (Highlight, Top 2.5%)
    [Paperlink], [Code]
    Area: Video-and-Language Representation, Machine Learning, Video-Text Retrieval, Video Captioning

    To solve the problem of the modality gap in video-text feature space, we propose Expectation-Maximization Contrastive Learning (EMCL) to learn compact video-and-language representations. We use the Expectation-Maximization algorithm to find a compact set of bases for the latent space, where the features could be concisely represented as the linear combinations of these bases.

    Expectation-Maximization Contrastive Learning for Compact Video-and-Language Representations
    Peng Jin*, Jinfa Huang*, Fenglin Liu, Xian Wu, Shen Ge, Guoli Song, David A. Clifton, Jie Chen
    Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2022
    (Spotlight Presentation, Top 5%)
    [Paperlink], [Code]
    Area: Video-and-Language Representation, Machine Learning, Video-Text Retrieval, Video Captioning

    To solve the problem of the modality gap in video-text feature space, we propose Expectation-Maximization Contrastive Learning (EMCL) to learn compact video-and-language representations. We use the Expectation-Maximization algorithm to find a compact set of bases for the latent space, where the features could be concisely represented as the linear combinations of these bases.

    All Publication [Google Scholar]

    My current research mainly focuses on multimodal generation and understanding. (*Equal Contribution)

    arXiv preprints

    [1] Shenghai Yuan*, Jinfa Huang*, Yujun Shi, Yongqi Xu, Ruijie Zhu, Bin Lin, Xinhua Cheng, Li Yuan, Jiebo Luo. "MagicTime: Time-lapse Video Generation Models as Metamorphic Simulators" [PDF][Code][Project page]

    [2] Bin Zhu, Peng Jin, Munan Ning, Bin Lin, Jinfa Huang, Qi Song, Mingjun Pan, Li Yuan. "LLMBind: A unified modality-task integration framework" [PDF][Code]

    [3] Bin Lin, Zhenyu Tang, Yang Ye, Jiaxi Cui, Bin Zhu, Peng Jin, Jinfa Huang, Junwu Zhang, Munan Ning, Li Yuan. "MoE-LLaVA: Mixture of Experts for Large Vision-Language Models" [PDF][Code]

    [4] Hanjia Lyu*, Jinfa Huang*, Daoan Zhang*, Yongsheng Yu*, Xinyi Mou*, Jinsheng Pan, Zhengyuan Yang, Zhongyu Wei, Jiebo Luo. "GPT-4V (ision) as a Social Media Analysis Engine" [PDF][Code]

    [5] Hongjian Zhou*, Fenglin Liu*, Boyang Gu*, Xinyu Zou*, Jinfa Huang*, Jinge Wu, Yiru Li, Sam S. Chen, Peilin Zhou, Junling Liu, Yining Hua, Chengfeng Mao, Xian Wu, Yefeng Zheng, Lei Clifton, Zheng Li, Jiebo Luo, David A. Clifton. "A Survey of Large Language Models in Medicine: Principles, Applications, and Challenges" [PDF][Code]

    [6] Jinfa Huang*, Jinsheng Pan*, Zhongwei Wan, Hanjia Lyu, Jiebo Luo. "Evolver: Chain-of-Evolution Prompting to Boost Large Multimodal Models for Hateful Meme Detection" [PDF]

    [7] Cong Jin, Jingru Fan, Jinfa Huang, Jinyuan Fu, Yi Zhang, Tao Mei, Li Yuan, Jiebo Luo. "Next-Gen AIGC: Harnessing Advanced Multimodal Foundation Models for Text-to-Media Innovations"

    [8] Haoran Tang, Meng Cao, Jinfa Huang, Ruyang Liu, Peng Jin, Ge Li, Xiaodan Liang. "MUSE: Mamba is Efficient Multi-scale Learner for Text-video Retrieval" [PDF][Code]

    2024

    [1] Meng Cao*, Haoran Tang*, Jinfa Huang, Peng Jin, Can Zhang, Ruyang Liu, Long Chen, Xiaodan Liang, Li Yuan, Ge Li. "RAP: Efficient Text-Video Retrieval with Sparse-and-Correlated Adapter", ACL 2024 Finding, [PDF][Code]

    [2] Shaofeng Zhang, Jinfa Huang, Qiang Zhou, Zhibin Wang, Fan Wang, Jiebo Luo, Junchi Yan. "Continuous-Multiple Image Outpainting in One-Step via Positional Query and A Diffusion-based Approach", ICLR 2024, [PDF][Code]

    [3] Zhongwei Wan*, Ziang Wu*, Che Liu, Jinfa Huang, Zhihong Zhu, Peng Jin, Longyue Wang, Li Yuan. "LOOK-M: Look-Once Optimization in KV Cache for Efficient Multimodal Long-Context Inference", EMNLP 2024 Finding, [PDF][Code]

    [4] Shenghai Yuan, Jinfa Huang, Yongqi Xu, Yaoyang Liu, Shaofeng Zhang, Yujun Shi, Ruijie Zhu, Xinhua Cheng, Jiebo Luo, Li Yuan. "ChronoMagic-Bench: A Benchmark for Metamorphic Evaluation of Text-to-Time-lapse Video Generation", NeurIPS 2024 D&B Spotlight, [PDF][Code][Project page]

    [5] Fengyang Xiao, Sujie Hu, Yuqi Shen, Chengyu Fang, Jinfa Huang, Chunming He, Longxiang Tang, Ziyun Yang, Xiu Li. "A Survey of Camouflaged Object Detection and Beyond", CAAI 2025, [PDF][Github]

    [6] Fenglin Liu, Zheng Li, Qingyu Yin, Jinfa Huang, Xian Wu, Anshul Thakur, Kim Branson, Patrick Schwab, Bing Yin, Yefeng Zheng, Jiebo Luo, and David A. Clifton. "A Multimodal Multidomain Multilingual Medical Foundation Model for Zero-Shot Clinical Diagnosis", npj Digital Medicine, [PDF][Github]

    2023

    [1] Peng Jin, Jinfa Huang, Pengfei Xiong, Shangxuan Tian, Chang Liu, Xiangyang Ji, Li Yuan, Jie Chen. "Video-Text as Game Players: Hierarchical Banzhaf Interaction for Cross-Modal Representation Learning", CVPR 2023 Highlight, [PDF][Code][Project page]

    [2] Jingyi Wang, Jinfa Huang, Can Zhang, Zhidong Deng. "Cross-Modality Time-Variant Relation Learning for Generating Dynamic Scene Graphs", ICRA 2023, [PDF][Code]

    [3] Peng Jin, Hao Li, Zesen Cheng, Jinfa Huang, Zhennan Wang, Li Yuan, Chang Liu, Jie Chen. "Text-Video Retrieval with Disentangled Conceptualization and Set-to-Set Alignment", IJCAI 2023, [PDF][Code]

    [4] Hao Li, Jinfa Huang, Peng Jin, Guoli Song, Qi Wu, Jie Chen. "Weakly-Supervised 3D Spatial Reasoning for Text-Based Visual Question Answering", TIP 2023, [PDF]

    [5] Jingyi Wang, Can Zhang, Jinfa Huang, Botao Ren, Zhidong Deng. "Improving Scene Graph Generation with Superpixel-Based Interaction Learning", ACMMM 2023, [PDF]

    2022 and Earlier

    [1] Peng Jin*, Jinfa Huang*, Fenglin Liu, Xian Wu, Shen Ge, Guoli Song, David Clifton, Jie Chen. "Expectation-Maximization Contrastive Learning for Compact Video-and-Language Representations", NeurIPS 2022 Spotlight, [PDF][Code]

    [2] Yingmei Guo, Jinfa Huang, Yanlong Dong, Mingxing Xu. "Guoym at SemEval-2020 task 8: Ensemble-based Classification of Visuo-lingual Metaphor in Memes", SemEval-2020, [PDF]

    [3] Yanan Wang, Jianming Wu, Jinfa Huang, Gen Hattori, Yasuhiro Takishima, Shinya Wada, Rui Kimura, Jie Chen, Satoshi Kurihara. "LDNN: Linguistic Knowledge Injectable Deep Neural Network for Group Cohesiveness Understanding", ICMI 2020, [PDF][Code]

    Selected Honors & Scholarships

  • Peking University Excellent Graduation Thesis (Top 10%), PKU  2023
  • Outstanding Graduate of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC),  2020
  • Selected entrant for Google Machine Learning Winter Camp 2019 (100 people worldwide),  2019
  • National Inspirational Scholarship,  2018
  • China Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-CCPC), Jilin, Bronze,  2018

  • Academic Service

  • PC Member:   CVPR'23/24/25, NeurIPS'22/23, ICLR'23/24/25, ICCV'23, ACM MM'24, ECCV'24, AAAI'25
  • Journal Reviewer:   IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TPAMI

  • Teaching

  • Teaching Assistant, CSC 240/440 Data Mining, Prof. Jian Kang, University of Rochester, 2025 Spring
  • Teaching Assistant, CSC 240/440 Data Mining, Prof. Monika Polak, University of Rochester, 2024 Fall

  • Personal Interests

    Anime: As a pastime in my spare time, I watched a lot of Japanese anime about love, sports, and sci-fi.

    Literature: My favorite writer is Xiaobo Wang, the wisdom of his life inspires me. My favorite philosopher is Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, and I am grateful that his philosophy has accompanied me through many difficult times in my life.


    My hometown is Guangdong, you can call me by my Cantonese name: Gamfaat Wong.
    Last updated on Nov, 2024.

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